| MIKHAILGLINKA | 19th-century Russian composer whose works included the opera A Life For The Tsar (7,6) |
| GLINKA | Mikhail, Russian composer of the opera A Life for the Tsar (6) |
| SAMWOOD | American director of films such as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races and Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| TAVENER | John, British composer of the opera A Gentle Spirit (7) |
| EARLOFWARWICK | A title of Riccardo in Verdi's opera A Masked Ball |
| PROKOFIEV | Sergei ---, Russian composer whose works included the 'symphonic fairy tale' Peter And The Wolf (9) |
| BORODIN | Alexander, 19th Century Russian composer of the unfinished opera Prince Igor (7) |
| SERGEIPROKOFIEV | Russian composer whose works include the opera The Love for Three Oranges (6,9) |
| IVAN | "A Life for the Tsar" hero Susanin |
| MODESTMUSSORGSKY | Russian composer whose works include Pictures at an Exhibition for piano and the opera Boris Godunov (6,10) |
| RIMSKYKORSAKOV | Nikolai ___, Russian composer whose works include the orchestral suite Scheherazade and the opera Le Coq d'or |
| ALEXANDERBORODIN | Russian composer whose works include the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia |
| GLAZUNOV | Alexander ___, Russian composer whose works include the ballets The Seasons and Raymonda |
| OFFENBACH | Jacques ___, composer whose works included the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld (9) |
| ELGAR | English composer whose works included The Dream Of Gerontius and the Pomp And Circumstance Marches (6,5) |
| EDWARD | English composer whose works included The Dream Of Gerontius and the Pomp And Circumstance Marches (6,5) |
| WARLOCK | Peter, English composer whose works included the song cycle The Curlew (7) |
| ADAMS | John ___, composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China (5) |
| JOHNADAMS | Composer of the operas A Flowering Tree and Nixon in China (4.5) |
| ARENSKY | Anton ___, Russian composer whose works include Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky (7) |
